Hi, everyone still reading. There was an update today, and it may be the last. We’ve come to the end of the first day of the tournament, and as all of you know, tournaments take two days to complete. Writing the first day of the tournament, however, has taken about a year to complete.

I don’t know how busy I’ll be in college, but I know it’ll be a lot harder to update once things get going and I have, you know, midterms and stuff. Yeah.

Anyway, I’ve got a lot of the second day planned out already (e.g. Andrew’s…

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Caroline and Melinda materialized on the roof of Yining’s house, and promptly slid off into the flower bed. (The roof, at least this part, was sloped and made of tin or something like it; not much purchase for paraethereal beings.) They had arrived just in time to witness the tail end of Chapter 11.

“He was taken by agents of darkness to the Lee-Land,” said a very familiar voice. Caroline jumped. Melinda almost swore.

“Then I have to go and get him!” cried another voice, almost familiar in some way, but somehow not. Caroline blinked, trying to place it. (Avatars…

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I was planning to post a summary of my first few days, but when I was almost done, I lost two-thirds of it by reloading. *mental smack on forehead* I’ll post it tomorrow, or sometime…eventual. Meanwhile, please enjoy this complementary poem, written two nights ago.

Mu
a timeless
concept in Japanese
and Buddhism
which
when defined
means a void
or absence of answer
“Unask the question”
but which
when
turned around
for daily use
simply means
“Um”

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